Even though the OP isn't going to read this I would like to voice my agreement...

I have had a situation on another game where a person was sending me very horrible hate messages and when I blocked them they just logged out and made a new character to continue harassing me with. I did report them but it took a long time for the staff to help me and in the meantime the game was so unbearable I stopped playing.

Here I feel very helpless and defenseless against all the annoying gil sellers. It's actually probably the single worst thing about my FFXIV experience and the one thing that makes me reluctant to recommend this game to friends. As much as I have enjoyed exploring Eorzea, this constant barrage of pink text, washing FC chat off the screen, dinging and buzzing noisily over my cut scenes... it's just terrible.